NITRATE ZONES
July 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNNOT many items of legislation from Brussels have provoked quite such anger among farmers over the years as the nitrates directive, which seeks to protect water from nitrate pollution caused by the application of organic and inorganic fertilisers to agricultural land. Commenting on DEFRA's recent announcement that it proposed to classify 55 per cent of land in England as a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) in order to comply with the legislation, the National Farmers Union said while this was "a considerable improvement" on the original proposal, the ...
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